by - June 11, 2025 9:19 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission is putting experience in working with the military and building relationships at the top of their list of qualifications for a new airport director….
by - May 5, 2025 5:02 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission hopes to have a director hired within six months, but a focus on finding “character and integrity” in a person to help lead the…
by - April 30, 2025 2:47 pm
March traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport was up slightly compared with March 2024, but traffic numbers for the first quarter of the year are down almost 2%…
by - April 22, 2025 9:09 pm
Fort Smith Regional Airport Director Michael Griffin resigned Tuesday (April 22). His resignation was announced following a more than 90 minute Airport Commission executive session. Griffin, director since 2017, was…
by - January 23, 2025 1:29 pm
Traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport increased in 2024 compared with 2023, but the numbers are still well below pre-pandemic trends. Traffic at the airport also fell more than…
by - December 12, 2024 11:56 am
Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport between January and November totaled 56,430, up 1.3% compared with traffic in the same period of 2023. November traffic was down almost 7%…
by - August 9, 2024 10:23 am
Fort Smith Regional Airport enplanements between January and July totaled 35,636, up 3.4% compared with traffic in the same period of 2023. However, July traffic was down more than 8%…
by - May 14, 2024 9:50 am
The traffic trend continues to be positive at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in early 2024 after a disappointing 2023. Airport enplanements through April total 18,745, up 7.6% compared with…
by - April 15, 2024 3:12 pm
Fort Smith Regional Airport traffic is up in the first two months of 2024, reversing a traffic trend that saw enplanements dip almost 2% in 2023. It’s a trend improvement…
by - April 11, 2024 11:49 am
The Fort Smith Airport Commission approved an agreement at a special meeting Wednesday (April 10) with the City of Fort Smith to ensure all the necessary runway projects are completed…
by - December 12, 2023 2:58 pm
Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport totaled 50,821 between January and October, down 2.15% compared with the same period in 2022. Barring robust November and December numbers, the trend…
by - August 16, 2023 4:59 pm
Fort Smith Regional Airport enplanements totaled 34,456 between January and July, down 2.7% compared with the same period in 2022. Reduced flight frequency by American Airlines is one reason for…
by - May 9, 2023 7:57 pm
The odds are against adding new commercial air routes in the near future at the Fort Smith Regional Airport, but a consultant on Tuesday (May 9) told airport commissioners and…
by - April 17, 2023 5:04 pm
Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport are up more than 3% in the first quarter of 2023 after finishing 2022 with a 30.5% enplanement increase over 2021 in which…
by - September 19, 2022 3:49 pm
The Gulfstream private jets coming and going from the Fort Smith Regional Airport since Sept. 12 are part of a flight control software fix required by the Federal Aviation Administration…
by - August 11, 2022 11:54 am
Traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport is slowly recovering from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns in 2020, and Airport Director Michael Griffin estimates a new connection to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport…
by - February 8, 2022 5:12 pm
Air travel is slowly returning to Fort Smith, but at levels still well below those prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in 2021 totaled…
by - October 27, 2021 5:17 pm
In a city founded to help push the country westward, heading east is the top challenge for Fort Smith Regional Airport Director Michael Griffin. The airport has four direct flights…
by - July 27, 2021 5:21 pm
American Airlines will not operate flights out of Fort Smith Regional from Aug. 21 through Sept. 5 due to a planned construction project of repaving the airport’s main runway, said…
by - January 18, 2021 4:12 pm
Fort Smith Regional Airport enplanements were down 59.6% in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic that largely shut down business and tourism travel around the world. The decline hit as…
